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No. 107 October 2007

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SICOTSOCIÉTÉ INTERNATIONALE de CHIRURGIE ORTHOPÉDIQUE et deTRAUMATOLOGIETHE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY AND TRAUMATOLOGY SICOT

Société Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopédique et de TraumatologieInternational Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology w w w. s i c o t . o r g

Marrakech AIC 2007 - Photos 2

Editorial by Prof Maurice Hinsenkamp 3

Conference news: Opening Ceremony 4

Award Winners 6

International Council 8

Young surgeons: Examination for the SICOT Diploma 9

Worldwide news: SIROT 10

In memory of Prof Dr Ion Dinulescu 11

In this issue

Marrakech AIC 2007

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Marrakech AIC 2007 - Photos

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National Delegates’ Banquet, 28 August

Dr Thami Benzakour, Mrs Kheira Benzakour, Mrs JanetSorbie, Prof Charles Sorbie, Mrs Corinna Smith, ProfChadwick Smith, Prof Keith Luk, and Mrs Katherine Luk

Dr Thami Benzakour receiving a gift from Prof MauriceHinsenkamp for his work organising the conference

Prof Patricia Fucs, Ass Prof Tomas Trc, Mrs Anne-MarieEulert, Mrs Danielle Sedel, Prof Dr Jochen Eulert, ProfLaurent Sedel, Mrs Annie Leong, and Prof John C.Y. Leong

Prof Dr Vilmos Vecsei, Prof Abdullah Al-Othman, ProfRocco Pitto, Ms Olivia Payne, Mrs Avis Hall, Mr AnthonyHall, Prof Rainer Kotz, and Mrs Dagmar Kotz

Dancer at the National Delegates' Banquet Dr Mohamed Lemseffer, Mrs Meryem Lemseffer, MrsS. Santori, Dr Francesco Saverio Santori, Prof FedericoFernandez-Palazzi, Prof Marko Pecina, and Prof MauriceHinsenkamp

President’s Dinner, 31 August

Mrs Kheira Benzakour, Ms Nadia Benzakour, Dr ThamiBenzakour, and Mr Ahmed Benzakour

Prof Chadwick Smith and Dr Thami Benzakour Prof Tomihisa Koshino, Prof John C.Y. Leong, Mrs AnnieLeong, Prof Chadwick Smith, Mrs Corinna Smith, Prof Galal Zaki Said, Mrs Nadia Said, Prof Cody Bünger,Mrs Atika Bensaid, and Dr Abderrahmane Bensaid

Dr James Waddell, Mrs May Lidgren, Ms Jane Morton,and Prof Lars Lidgren

Prof Patricia Fucs, Dr Lowell Gill, and Prof Dr JochenEulert

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The rising star of SICOT Editorial

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Many new records and much progress were celebrated at the FifthSICOT/SIROT Annual International Conference held in Marrakech. Themeeting was a success from many points of view. Thanks to the sustaining

effort of the Conference President, Thami Benzakour, with the support of all his family, Kheira, his wife, Nadia, his daughter, and Ahmed, his son, the conference wasan “unforgettable” event.

The scientific programme ultimately included 344 oral presentations and 353 posters.Four plenary speakers and 61 invited speakers gave talks on the state of the art in theirvaried disciplines. No less than 1,299 participants who came from 79 different coun-tries attended the meeting. Europe provided the largest attendance, 55%, followedin decreasing order by Africa, Near and Middle East 26%; Asia and Pacific 15%; NorthAmerica and Latin America 4%. 211 trainees attended the meeting.

15 applicants took the fifth SICOT Diploma Examination. Out of these, 12 passedthe certificate which is gaining more and more international recognition. The twosuccessful candidates with the highest marks received the German SICOT Fellowship.A total of 30 awards and diplomas were given out at the Closing Ceremony.

This year, we shared sessions with SMACOT (Société Marocaine de ChirurgieOrthopédique et de Traumatologie), SRS (Scoliosis Research Society), and IFPOS(International Federation of Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery).

Among the very good news related to the Society is the progress of our scientific jour-nal “International Orthopaedics”. It reached very recently an impact factor of 0.997.In addition, the very short delay between submission and publication (less than 6 months) and the quality of English language correction represent now a very at-tractive scientific medium for your papers.

Please take time to visit our website which has also evolved significantly and offers youthe opportunity to discuss online abstracts of the best papers presented at theMarrakech meeting. Another new service it offers is available positions for traineesin the main training centres of the world. It also opens the possibility for trainees torequest a training position in general or specialised orthopaedic surgery and trau-matology.

The rising star of SICOT in the Arabian nights at Marrakech will remain a memo-rable vision of the SICOT evolution and of its continued efforts to be present in allparts of the world. ■

Maurice HinsenkampSICOT Secretary General


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Opening Ceremony

Dr Fouad Hammadi representingthe Minister of Health,Mr President of the City Council,Mr Presidents of SICOT and ofSIROT,Dear Colleagues,Ladies and Gentlemen,

First of all, I would like to ex-press my deepest gratitude to HisMajesty, King Mohammed VI, whohas kindly agreed to give His HighPatronage to the Fifth SICOT/SIROT Annual Interna tio nal Con fe -rence in Marra kech.

It is also an honour and a privi-lege to welcome you all to the red

city where I hope you will have avery nice stay and an excellentSICOT meeting.

Owing to its link point locationand its secure and stable status inNorth Africa, Morocco combines allthe ingredients that make up a com-plete incentive destination.

Marrakech, the city, offers manyadvantages and all the facilities re-quired for a successful SICOT meet-ing such as this magnificent Con -gress Centre.

Orthopaedics is at the heart ofour whole medical system. Please al-low me also to claim that “Ortho -paedics is making great pro gress,bringing back ability and mobility”.

My country is not a founder ofSICOT, but today everyone is a part

of founding. This gathering is veryspecial, since it marks the universal-ity of SICOT which extends all overthe world.

This day represents the hope foreven better future development ofOrthopaedics worldwide. It is agood occasion to emphasise morethe SICOT objectives.

We are here to cooperate andcollaborate in developing ortho -paedic education and knowledge.

Speech given by the Conference President, Dr Thami Benzakour, at the Opening Ceremony of theFifth SICOT/SIROT Annual International Conference in Marrakech on 29 August 2007:

Andalusian music was followed by Daqqafanfare

Dr Thami Benzakour

The Masters of Ceremony, Ms Nadia Benzakour and Mr Ahmed Benzakour


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Conferencenews

SICOT has always assisted in the pro -motion of the quality of life throughall regions, no matter our age, ourrace, our country or our religion.

This Conference will be an im-portant forum for the discussion ofmany current orthopaedic issuesand new developments in the spe-cialty.

I have to thank specially the pres-idents of SICOT, SIROT, SMACOT,the Local Committee, the SICOTHead Office and the organisers aswell as all chairmen, moderators, re-viewers and invited speakers, cho-sen for their international renow -ned expertise. I am very grateful to

them for putting this meeting on thetrack of success.

Regarding the scientific pro-gramme, our aim is to reach excel-lence to meet your expectations.

We have 4 outstanding plenaryspeakers: Lowell Gill from USA,Tomihisa Koshino from Japan, LarsLidgren from Sweden, and LaurentSedel from France. We also have61 invited speakers giving 78 lec-tures, 354 oral presentations run-ning in 4 concurrent rooms, and 350 posters displayed.

This Ceremony will continuewith our invited presidential speak -er, Prof Ahmed Abaddi of Morocco,

who will give a lecture entitled:“On mutual recognition: weavingthe peace process”.

For the technical aspects, I wouldlike to express my thanks to the ex-hibitors. There are 24 booths, twoworkshops and symposia as well asone live surgery, “Navigation forProf Lars Lidgren Dr Lowell Gill Prof Tomihisa

KoshinoProf Laurent Sedel

knee ligamentoplasty”, transmittedfrom Bordeaux, France.

On the other hand, within thesocial programme, Marrakech offerssuperb sightseeing both in the citywith its spectacular sites, and out oftown, in the Atlas Mountains and theSahara desert, featuring impressivelandscapes.

Finally, I wish you an excellentstay in Marrakech and an unforget-table SICOT meeting.

Thank you very much. ■

The guest speaker, Prof Ahmed Abaddi

The podium


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Award Winners

Prof Chadwick Smith presented the followingaward winners with their certificates during

the Closing Ceremony of the Fifth SICOT/SIROTAnnual International Conference on 1 September2007:

Alaric John AROOJIS (India) Mikhail GERASIMENKO (Belarus)

Vaibhav BAGARIA (India)

Srinivasa VIDYADHARA (India)

Lester Lowe SICOT Award

• Vaibhav BAGARIA (India)

• Srinivasa VIDYADHARA (India)

Australian SICOT Award

• Alaric John AROOJIS (India)

• Mikhail GERASIMENKO (Belarus)

• Paraskumar MOHANLAL (United Kingdom)

German SICOT Fellowship

• Athanasios ANASTASIADIS (Greece)

• Ranjith Ravindran KUZHUPILLY (United Kingdom)


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Conferencenews

SICOT Oral Presentation Award• 1st: Sayuri ARIMITSU (Japan)

• 2nd: Emad Samuel Boles SAWEERES (Egypt)

• 3rd: Jacob MUNRO (New Zealand)

• 4th: Carlo Luca ROMANO (Italy)

• 5th: Florian GRAS (Germany)

• 6th: Andreas PANAGOPOULOS (Greece)

• 7th: István NAUMOV (Hungary)

• 8th: Ersan ATES (Turkey)

SICOT Poster Award

• 1st: Makoto IEGUCHI (Japan)

• 2nd: Cuneyt TAMAM (Turkey)

• 3rd: Si Mohammed MADHAR (Morocco)

• 4th: Yukichi ZENKE (Japan)

• 5th: Arndt SCHULZ (Germany)

• 6th: Selva KUMAR (Malaysia)

• 7th: Ewy-Ryong CHUNG (Korea)

• 8th: Satoshi TAKENAKA (Japan)

• 9th: Hesham Fathy GHONEEM (Egypt)

• 10th: Simon JAMESON (United Kingdom)

SICOT Trainees’ Best Paper Award

• Paul GUYVER (United Kingdom)

SIROT Oral Presentation Award

• Eli PELED (Israel)

• Syah BAHARI (Ireland)

SIROT Poster Award

• Tsuyoshi MURASE (Japan)

• Saravana KARUPPIAH (United Kingdom)

Paraskumar MOHANLAL (United Kingdom)

Ranjith Ravindran KUZHUPILLY (United Kingdom)

Athanasios ANASTASIADIS (Greece)


International CouncilMarrakech, 29 August 2007

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Conferencenews

1. Dr Mohamed Lemseffer (Morocco)2. Prof Federico Fernandez-Palazzi (Venezuela)3. Prof John C.Y. Leong (Hong Kong)4. Dr Thami Benzakour (Morocco)5. Prof Chadwick Smith (United States)6. Prof Cody Bünger (Denmark)7. Prof Thamer Hamdan (Iraq)8. Prof Patricia Fucs (Brazil)9. Assoc Prof Dariush Gouran Savadkoohi (Iran)

10. Dr Morris Duhaime (Canada)11. Prof Keith Dip-Kei Luk (Hong Kong)12. Mr Ian J. Leslie (United Kingdom)13. Prof Se-Il Suk (Korea)14. Dr Abdullah Al-Othman (Saudi Arabia)15. Prof Hwa-Chang Liu (Taiwan)16. Dr Hatem Said (Egypt)17. Dr Kandiah Raveendran (Malaysia)18. Prof Dr Vilmos Vecsei (Austria)19. Prof Marko Pecina (Croatia)20. Dr Francesco Saverio Santori (Italy)21. Prof Dr Syed Muhammad Awais (Pakistan)22. Dr Felix Gil-Orbezo (Mexico)23. Dr Ali Jaffer Aradi (Bahrain)24. Dr Antero Mäkelä (Finland)25. Dr Mohammed Hassan Darwish (Oman)26. Mr Geoffrey Walker (United Kingdom)27. Prof Maurice Hinsenkamp (Belgium)28. Prof Laurent Sedel (France)29. Prof Rein Raie (Estonia)30. Prof Gershon Volpin (Israel)31. Assoc Prof Tomas Trc (Czech Republic)

32. Prof El Hadj Ibrahima Diop (Senegal)33. Prof Erdal Cila (Turkey)34. Ass Prof Andrzej Bohatyrewicz (Poland)35. Dr Michael Zimlitski (Georgia)36. Dr Arame Fal (Ivory Coast)37. Mr Anthony J. Hall (United Kingdom)38. Prof Ping Chung Leung (Hong Kong)39. Prof Katsuji Shimizu (Japan)40. Prof Dr Prabodh Mukundrai Desai (India)41. Prof Dr Jochen Eulert (Germany)42. Assoc Prof Wichien Laohacharoensombat (Thailand)43. Dr Brett G. Courtenay (Australia)44. Prof Charles Sorbie (Canada)45. Prof Dr Reinhard Windhager (Austria)46. Prof Dr Vane Antolic (Slovenia)47. Prof Rainer Kotz (Austria)48. Dr Wahab Yinusa (Nigeria)49. Dr Luis Lopez-Duran Stern (Spain)50. Dr Horia-Bogdan Orban (Romania)51. Prof Mourad Hamidani (Algeria)52. Prof Rocco Pitto (New Zealand)


Young surgeons

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One part of the educational mis-sion of SICOT is to assess levels

of orthopaedic knowledge and com-petence. At each meeting, Annual orTriennial, since 2002, I have been re-sponsible for organising and runningan examination for the SICOT diploma.

The written part of the examination consists of 100multiple-choice questions selected by Charles Sorbiefrom the HYPERGUIDE - a web based educational fo-rum sponsored by STRYKER. The oral part is an inten-sive session of questions on orthopaedics, pathology,trauma, children, hands and basic science. The candi-date visits four tables at each of which two examiners“grill” him for 30 minutes on one or two of the desig-nated subjects. At the end of two hours oral and twohours written examination it is possible to form a fair-ly clear idea of the candidates’ knowledge!

This year in Marrakech, there were 12 successful can-didates, three of whom scored outstanding marks:Athanasios ANASTASIADIS (Greece)Ranjith Ravindran KUZHUPILLY (UK)Ravi G. BHARADWAJ (UK)Two of these three will be offered the German SICOTFellowship which enables them to visit importantGerman Orthopaedic centres over a four-week peri-od and includes travel and living expenses. You willhave read, in earlier editions of the Newsletter, whatan outstanding opportunity and experience theFellowship represents and we wish the two lucky high-est scoring young surgeons every success on their trip.SICOT is indebted to Prof Dr J. Eulert for this splendidopportunity provided by his colleagues in the DeutscheSektion SICOT e V.

The other successful candidates were:Mousa ALHAOSAWI (Saudi Arabia)Swapnil Amit SINGH (UK)Ibrahima FARIKOU (Cameroon)

Avadhoot KANTAK (UK)Peter Kavoo KILONZO (Egypt)Deepu BHASKAR (UK)Elhussein ELMOATASEM (Egypt)Kirsteen AWORI (Kenya)Ihab EMRAN (Egypt)We congratulate these candidates on their success andwish them well in their future careers.

At each examination there have been more applica-tions and this year, in Marrakech, there were over 24potential candidates. For logistical reasons it was onlypossible to accept 24 candidates because we need thesame number of examiners as candidates and it can bedifficult to assemble 24 busy orthopaedic professors inone place at the same time! It is therefore particular-ly disappointing when candidates fail to turn up for theexaminations since all the facilities, computers, exami-nation rooms, papers and most of all, examiners havebeen set in place in readiness. We will contact all thecandidates who did not show up to find out how wecan help them to ensure their attendance in future.

I would also like to express my gratitude and appre-ciation to the international team of examiners who ded-icate so much time and effort to ensure the continuingsuccess of this venture. They are in no particular order:Jochen Eulert and Jochen Loehr (Germany), BrettCourtenay (Australia), Tomas Trc (Czech Republic),Marko Pecina (Croatia), Erdal Cila (Turkey), AbdullahAl-Othman (Saudi Arabia), Charles Sorbie, MorrisDuhaime and James Waddell (Canada), Luis Lopez-Duran Stern (Spain), Kandiah Raveendran(Malaysia), Syed M. Awais (Pakistan), Tim Morley,Ian Leslie, Marc Patterson, Geoffrey Walker, andMaher Halawa (UK), Rocco Pitto (New Zealand),and Galal Zaki Said (Egypt).

The Officers of SICOT are keen to develop and im-prove the SICOT Examination and are committed toits continuing success. ■

Examination for the SICOT Diploma

Mr Anthony J. Hall | Chief Examiner

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Prof Ping Chung Leung | SIROT President

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Worldwidenews

SIROT

SICOT has started its training cen-tre in Pakistan. SIROT is aware

of the rising need for young or-thopaedic surgeons to get involved inresearch. Indeed, in some developingregions, trainees are required tocomplete one or two small scale

research projects before their final qualifying exam-ination. SIROT started short training workshopsfor trainees in 2006. The first was held in Beijing,China, in November 2006, during the An nualCongress of the Chinese Orthopaedic Society. The next was held in Makassar, Indonesia. The work-shops provided practical training on researchmethodology, biostatistics, giving presentations, andwriting manuscripts etc., for 50-200 trainees eachtime.

Romania is holding a joint workshop with SIROTin October 2007, and we have Georgia and Hungarylined up for the planning in 2008.

SIROT is ready to offer developing regions a sim-ilar arrangement. ■

Details of the workshops held are given in the following table:Time Place Co-organiser Topics No. of

participants

November Beijing, China Chinese Orthopaedic Fracture, 400+2006 Association Biomechanics,

PublicationFebruary Makassar, Indonesia Orthopaedics Fracture, 120+2007 Indonesia Research Society Biomechanics,

Evidence Based Medicine, Publication

April 2007 Shanghai, China Shanghai SIROT Group Spine research, 200+Evidence Based Medicine, Publication, Biostatistics

June 2007 Kunming, China Dept. of Orthopaedics, Fracture, 100+Kunming University Biostatistics,

Publication

Prof PingChung Leunggiving hisspeech at theOpeningCeremony

Hong Kong TWC 2008Abstract submission deadline is 15 January 2008 - List of topics

SpineJointSportsPaediatrics

Foot & AnkleTraumaTumoursHand & Wrist

Shoulder & ElbowBasic Science

SICOT:Fracture HealingTissue EngineeringBiomechanics

OsteoporosisJoint ReplacementInfection

Tumours

SIROT:

To submit your abstract(s), please visit the SICOT website at http://www.sicot.org


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In memory ofProf Dr Ion Dinulescu

Worldwidenews

P rof Dr Ion Dinulescu was born on 4 May 1929 inBucharest. At the age of two, he left for Paris, along

with his parents, and there he spent his childhood.Returning to Romania in the interwar period, he at-tended courses at some impressive schools in Bucharest.In 1953 he graduated from the Human Medicine Faculty,one of the 10 best students. Having decided to followthe path of healing human suffering, Prof Dr Ion Dinulescubecame actively engaged in several medical servicesaround the country. He was particularly interested inosteoarticular tuberculosis surgery. He had contact, forthe first time, with orthopaedic-traumatology surgery,and from then on he dedicated his en-tire medical career to this specialty. Hisprofessional development had no limits.Prof Dr Dinulescu tried to acquire thebest from every learning opportunity toperfect himself in his chosen specialty.He attended numerous courses bothin Romania and abroad. In 1970, he re-ceived an invitation from theCommittee of the Italian Society ofOrthopaedics and Traumatology towork in several well-known Italian clin-ics such as: the Rizzoli OrthopaedicsInstitute in Bologna with Prof Dr M.Palttinieri, the University Clinic ofOrtho paedics in Rome with Prof DrG. Monticelli, and the International College of Surgeonsalso in Rome. He spent time at the Clinic ofOrthopaedics and Traumatology in the cantonal hospi-tal in Geneva, Switzerland.

As a result of the rules imposed by the communistparty, Prof Dr Dinulescu was unable to continue hisprofessional development in other ways, but corre-sponded regularly with his friends and fellow orthopaedicsurgeons in other countries. His inexhaustible energywas reoriented at home to both university and post-

university didactic activities, guiding thousands of med-ical students and hundreds of young specialists in theirmedical development.

The communist regime could not oppose the ac-knowledgement of his achievements and, therefore, since1968, he was able to become a member of several soci-eties all over the world - the Austrian Society ofTraumatology (1968), SIOT (1970), SICOT (1972). Hewas appointed SICOT National Delegate of Romaniabetween 1992 and 2006. After the anti-communist rev-olution, he was elected an active member of AOLF(1992), SOFCOT (1992), EFORT (1992, National

Delegate 1992-1996), and, in 2002,President of the 8th AOLF CongressBucharest, Romania.

A guerdon or mark of his medicaland scientific orthopaedic achieve-ments and, at the same time, interna-tional acknowledgement was his elec-tion as a Membre d’Honneurof SOFCOT(Paris 2004).

The national development of or-thopaedics and traumatology wasclosely linked with Prof Dr IonDinulescu, proof of which is the nu-merous surgical ‘firsts’ he performed.He was a member of SOROT and USSMfrom 1953, having been elected as

General Secretary (1970-1990) and then President ofSOROT (1992-1995). In 1991 he was elected a mem-ber of the Romanian Medical Academy of Science.

Prof Dr Ion Dinulescu sustained important scientificactivity, being author of more than 400 studies and sci-entific communications, published in both national and in-ternational scientific journals. This has given him his welldeserved position of prestige among the prominent fig-ures of international Orthopaedics.

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Awards granted at the SICOT/SIROT 2008XXIV Triennial World Congress

24 - 28 August 2008Hong Kong

Abdel Hay Mashhour/SICOT Award(Funded by Prof Abdel Hay Mashhour)Three prizes of USD 1,000 each will be awarded. The firstprize is given to a trainee from Prof Mashhour’s faculty of med-icine at Tanta University in Egypt and the other two are cho-sen from all applications received. The purpose of the award isto help young orthopaedic trainees attend the SICOT Congress.Documents to submit: application letter, CV, and note fromthe candidate’s supervisor confirming that he/she is engagedin full-time orthopaedics training.Deadline for application: 1 April 2008

Australian SICOT Award(Funded by the SICOT Australian section)Awarded since 2004 at each annual international conferenceand triennial world congress to young surgeons, the three prizesof AUD 3,000 each are to help cover travel and accommoda-tion expenses of young deserving surgeons who otherwisewould not be able to attend the SICOT meeting. The award isadministered by the Young Surgeons Committee. Candidatesmust be under 40 years of age and members of SICOT.Documents to submit: application letter, CV, copy of birthcertificate, and abstract(s) for the Congress. Deadline for application: 28 February 2008

Japanese SICOT Award(Funded by the Japan Orthopaedics and Traumatology Foundation)To be awarded to young orthopaedic surgeons. The purposeis to help candidates attend the SICOT Congress.Documents to submit: application letter, stating the cost ofan economy return airfare to Hong Kong, and CV.Deadline for application: 1 April 2008

Korean SICOT Award(Funded by the SICOT Foundation)To be awarded to young orthopaedic surgeons under 40. Theprize is USD 3,000 for one surgeon, or to be shared by twoorthopaedic surgeons. The purpose is to help candidates at-tend the SICOT Congress.

Further information about these and other awards can be foundat http://www.sicot.org

Documents to submit: application letter, CV, copy of birthcertificate, and indication of travel costs.Deadline for application: 28 February 2008

Marcela Uribe Zamudio Award(Funded by the SICOT Foundation)Two awards of up to USD 2,000 each will be awarded towomen orthopaedic surgeons under 40 or trainees who havecompleted original scientific work in orthopaedics or trauma-tology within the last three years. The purpose of the award isto encourage young researchers and clinicians.Documents to submit: application letter, CV, copy of birthcertificate, and copy of personal work within the last threeyears.Deadline for application: 28 February 2008

Maurice E. Müller/SICOT Award(Funded by the Maurice E. Müller Foundation)CHF 12,000 will be awarded to the author(s) of original scien-tific work in orthopaedics or traumatology (either clinical or re-search) completed within the three years prior to the HongKong TWC 2008. Candidates must be under 45. The purposeof the award is to encourage young researchers and clinicians.Documents to submit: CV, copy of birth certificate, andcopy of the scientific work (text and illustrations).Deadline for application: 31 December 2007

SICOT/SIROT Award(Funded by the SICOT Foundation)USD 2,000 will be awarded to the author(s) of original re-search work in orthopaedics or traumatology completed with-in the three years prior to the Hong Kong TWC 2008.Candidates must be under 45. The purpose of the award is tohelp candidates attend the Congress.Documents to submit: CV, copy of birth certificate, copy ofthe scientific work (full text and illustrations).Deadline for application: 31 December 2007
